Posted on 05/20/2009 7:50:39 PM PDT by KLT
WASHINGTON – A top al-Qaida suspect held at Guantanamo Bay will be sent to New York for trial, an Obama administration official said Wednesday, a major step in President Barack Obama's plan to close the detention center by early next year. Ahmed Ghailani would be the first Guantanamo detainee brought to the U.S. and the first to face trial in a civilian criminal court.
An official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to disclose the decision, told The Associated Press the administration has decided to bring Ghailani to trial in New York. He was indicted there for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa — attacks that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. It was not immediately clear when the transfer would occur.
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Furious PING..........Can’t they leave my hometown city alone? My son is a cop there now...What a bunch of idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama cares more about the “rights” of terrorists than the safety of Americans.
I don’t trust Obama or the courts to keep these terrorists off our streets.
I should have expected this....it’s a page out of the Clinton handbook, “How to be a totally unqualified, corrupt and disgusting politican?” Put the ppl in jeopardy for your idiotic poll numbers...
this is driven by ignorance or placing a higher value on ideology than national security.
It is not stupid. It is not ignorant. You have to hate your country to do something like this.
You are 100% right....
It is driven by an unpatriotic, America Hating socialist...How many times does it take? I hope all the MORONS who voted in this Communist unqualified corrupt poor excuse for a human being know what it’s like to go to 100s of funerals and lose colleagues and neighbors...not to mention family...
Lawyers dream. Get all US secrets and informants
As no one should! We have a terrorist in chief in the
WH.
I’m sure they’ll have some ACLU attorneys who will fight for the Terrorists rights...where do our rights come in? Where does our security and well being matter? Certainly not to the ingrates who continue this kind of policy...and we pay their salaries...
I’m speechless they would have this trial in NY. Talk about putting salt in the wounds of New Yorkers.
Posted this in another thread:
From 2004:
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/03/attacks.prison.stabbing/index.html
It's not as if New York doesn't have enough problems with the practitioners of the RoP.
FBI, NYPD Arrest 4 in Alleged Plot to Bomb NY Synagogues
And they weren't Danish Lutherans.
IIRC, it was the NYC office of the FBI that worked on the embassy attacks.
Demented and dangerous.....they think nothing of anyone else’s lives other then their own...
So, they are having the trial in NYC because the NY office of the FBI worked on the embassy attack cases? Is that correct? If so, thanks for the info because I was scratching my head trying to understand why they choose NY.
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